MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Police are looking for the driver of a vehicle that hit and killed a woman in northeast Miami-Dade County.
Gunshots were fired about 2 a.m. Saturday in the area of Northeast 149th Street and Northeast Sixth Avenue, police said.
A silver sedan was seen speeding from a nearby gas station. Witnesses said a woman, identified by police as Loukucha Joseph, 31, was run over by the sedan.
"All I saw was the lady on the ground and a young girl was trying to help her, trying to resuscitate her," a witness told Local 10 News. "I tried to help her by turning her over like the ambulance told us, but when they got here, it was too late and she passed away."
Joseph had a gunshot wound in addition to being hit by the car, Miami-Dade police said. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Joseph's death was troubling her cousin, Carline Thelisimon. She had gotten a call from Joseph just minutes before she died.
"She probably needed our help," Thelisimon said.
Family members and friends of Joseph said she was a light in their lives. She was a mother of two and went by Keisha for short.
"She was always a happy girl. Like I said, I knew her since she was a baby," said Serge Toussaint, Joseph's friend. 'When I found out she got killed, I'm like, 'Wow, they die too young nowadays.'"
"Keisha was just a happy-go-lucky person," said Thelisimon. "She's just full of love. I don't understand how this would happen to Keisha."
Police said they found the sedan involved in the crash, but have not said whether the driver has been found.
"That person will get caught," Thelisimon said.
Police are asking anyone with information about the driver of the vehicle to call Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.
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